Nuevo Laredo en vivo

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You don't notice it at first. Not with the people seemingly moving as normal
on the sidewalks and the happy recorded music blaring across the plaza in front
of city hall to announce the annual cowboy parade. No, at first Nuevo Laredo
looks like a regular border town, until the military armored car goes by a
block away and rotates the heavy machine gun toward the plaza. Are the soldiers
just curious? Or do they see something they want to shoot? Who will be hit if
they do open fire? Then other images come into focus, like the blocks of closed
shops, with for sale signs only on the most recently closed because the owners
of the older, more dilapidated shops, have given up even that hope.

María Elizabeth Macías Castro's killers made sure their
actions were understood. In a macabre, carefully orchestrated mise-en-scene,
they placed her body in front of a poster with the ominous note. Nearby they
left a computer keyboard, with a pair of headphones on her decapitated head.